made it out alive and told their story. Their witness accounts contribute information the world needs to understand what really took place in Germany and the concentration camps. Author‚ Elie Wiesel‚ voices his time in the Nazi concentration camps‚ in his autobiographical novel‚ Night. Throughout the story‚ Wiesel physically‚ mentally‚ and spiritually changes due to the horrific events of the holocaust. Wiesel’s
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In the book Night by Elie Wieser‚ the author explains the situation of Jewish people confined in concentration camps through his very own experiences. According to him‚ he was forced into labor by the Nazis‚ like all the other people who were held with him. Some people might say that the hardships the laborers faced helped build stronger relations amongst them. However‚ I strongly disagree with this idea. I believe that the experiences in the camps weakened relations between the people and was exacerbated
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Kapo‚ a prisoner for the police to watch the Jews. Not many of the Jews know that I am a police for the Nazis’ but they will learn if they underestimate.We took in more Jews today. I supplied Elie a job and if he doesn’t do it well or does anything wrong‚ then he or other Jews will regret it. I am mad at Elie now‚ I was in a private room with a girl and he decided to skip his job to spy on me. My punishment for him was to have him get beaten with a whip for what he had seen and told him he needs to
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one of the descriptions of what they did to the Jews. I believe that this quote has a very strong description of the inhumane things that the Nazis did to the Jews. It explains how they mercilessly killed them. It states‚ “Without passion or haste” (Wiesel 6) which indicates they used an extremely cruel tactic of extermination; slow and torturous. Without passion indicates that they treated the Jews as inanimate objects that; treating them as if they has no sense
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the guards know they can’t do anything or even show a little remorse. One silent night I was laying down just thinking how things used to be before the war against Jews when my family was happy and not separated. After not knowing what happen to rest of my family members just only made my shoulders heavy and difficult time breathing. Day by day I get this feeling to just give up on hope and die. I cried every night hoping to wake up in a home with nothing but joy. I want my father’s words to become
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rule there was a mass extermination of Jews. The Nazi leader Adolf Hitler used his manipulation to take over Germany and with his power he turned it to hate and killed Jews for no reason. This time period was full of darkness and hate. In the book Night there were many events that showed the hatred that the Jewish people went through and the horrible living conditions. The first event of hatred was when the Jews were beaten for doing something that wasn’t even wrong. One example of this was when
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In the book Night by Elie Wiesel‚ there is a motif of survival and a central idea that when one is put in a desperate situation‚ developments that may otherwise seem either mundane or horrifying may instead be seen as remarkable or amazing. When all the guards leave their posts because of an alarm signal‚ two cauldrons of soup are left unattended. All of the prisoners quickly take note of the soup and are in awe‚ “two cauldrons of soup with no one to guard them! A royal feast” (Wolff 59). The author’s
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Elie Wiesel: Never Forget Elie Wiesel has written over thirty novels over the course of his life. These novels directly affect society in general and especially impact Judaism. He has contributed not only to his race and religion but to ever human soul who reads his work. Elie Wiesel does this by not allowing any to forget the Halocaust of the Jews. "Elie Wiesel was born in Signet‚ Transylvania on September 30‚ 1928. He grew up the only son of four children‚ in a close-knit Jewish community
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Jessica Ms. Taravella Accelerated English 9A 12th January 2012 Night - Final Exam Theme Analysis Night may be a peaceful time for some‚ but for holocaust survivors‚ it was a horrific memory. The novel Night by Elie Wiesel is an autobiographical account of a teenager in the early 1940’s being forced to move into a ghetto and then into a concentration camp by the German Nazis. Nazi occupied Eastern Europe was ruled by the dictator Hitler
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suffer. In Elie Wiesel’s novel Night it shows that after experiencing a lack of compassion on a daily basis‚ people to feel pain. Night is Wiesel’s account from being in the Holocaust‚ and the horrors he faced. Not only are the Jews being shown lack of compassion by officer’s who guard the camp‚ but even their own people. It is like a chain reaction; no compassion is shown to the Jews‚ so the Jews showed no compassion towards each other. For example‚ when the officers were forcing Wiesel and others
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